This book, currently a collector's item, was the first french coherent presentation that introduced the general public to a phenomenon that before that time got no public interest: common people transforming their daily environment into an artwork.

Ehrmann, who as a photographer was connected to a french illustrated magazine, used a classic glass plate camera, which gives his photographs a specific texture. The pictures probably have been made in the second half of the nineteen fifties.

The second facade decorated by Massé, pictured above (photographer unknown), was located on the corner of the rue du Marais and the rue Bénadier.

It had an engraved bronze entrance door, adorned with an ancre and scallops This door currently is in the collection of the local Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix.

Left and right of the door the walls had frescoed maritime scenes, with at the right an inscription saying Coupe de Noroît, which to my best knowledge means "north western gale".

This facade probably has been decorated in the 1960's and/or 1970's.

As said, and as the pictures below show, the decorations on both facades have disappeared.

I could not figure out when this happened, but the pictures show really nothing has been left.

Documentation
* Hidden in small periodicals, out of my reach, documentary information should be available, such as in Frédéric Orbestier, "La Maison d'Alice", in: l'Art Immédiat, nr 2 (1995) and in an article by Benoit Decron and Charles Soubeyran in Olona, nr 207 (2009) (periodical of the regional historic society of the area around Les Sables d'Olonne)